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Ireland's Emily Beatty deflects a shot from her opponent in the Korea versus Ireland girls’ preliminary hockey match of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) at the Sengkang Hockey Stadium in Singapore, Aug 20, 2010. Korea won the match 3-2. Photo: SPH-SYOGOC/Jeremy Chan
I was chopping down some elephant grass in the front yard, and after my Craftsman handsaw had difficulty cutting it, I tried using my Fiskars (AKA Gerber) Brush Hook machete, and a chop deflected it up off the hard grass, and into my hand before I could react. I had a lanyard on the sharp knife to act as a mechanical advantage as a longer lever for greater force; with a half grip on the very end of the handle with the 550 cord lanyard around the wrist aiding in the retention of the chopper.
The bad news is, this also caused me to be unable to release the knife as it deflected, and the momentum continued it into my hand, before I could react it had hit me.
I was unable to stop, much like when you think you can brace yourself for a car impact, but later when it happens you find out that you can't.
I felt the impact, which was a numbing in my hand. I was afraid to look at first, and I hoped I had been hit below the blade at the top of the handle, because it was numb and didn't hurt very bad.
I looked and saw that I'd been cut, realizing the straite edge at the bottom of the blade did it. If it had been closer to the end when it impacted, it would have been a force multiplier for greater damage. Worse still at the very end, where the hook is. It has a curved edge, and causes a shearing affect as it cuts, because the curve causes all the energy to be focused on a smaller area which moves as the curve forces it to as it chops, much like a kurkri.
I tried to hold my hand steady to minimize bleeding.
I was chopping down some elephant grass in the front yard with my Craftsman handsaw but had difficulty cutting it. It is very difficult to cut down, it's as strong as small bamboo. If it's not cut down every spring, it will die.
I tried using my Fiskars (AKA Gerber) Brush Hook machete, and a chop deflected it up off the hard grass and into my hand before I could react. I had a lanyard on the sharp knife to act as a mechanical advantage as a longer lever for greater force; with a half grip on the very end of the handle with the 550 cord lanyard around the wrist aiding in the retention of the chopper.
The bad news is, this also caused me to be unable to release the knife as it deflected, and the momentum continued it into my hand, before I could react it had hit me. I was unable to stop, much like when you think you can brace yourself for a car impact, but later when it happens you find out that you can't.
I felt the impact, which was a numbing in my hand. I was afraid to look at first, and I hoped I had been hit below the blade at the top of the handle, because it was numb and didn't hurt very bad.
I looked and saw that I'd been cut, realizing the strait edge at the bottom of the blade did it. If it had been closer to the end when it impacted, it would have been a force multiplier for greater damage. Worse still if it had hit at the very end, where the hook is. It has a curved edge, and causes a shearing affect as it cuts. The curve causes all the energy to be focused on a smaller area which moves as the curve forces it to as it impacts, much like a kurkri.I might have lost fingers or my hand if it had hit there.
I tried to hold my hand steady to minimize bleeding, and hurried to the house, leaving a dripping blood trail on the way.
Dad drove me to the hospital, and I ended up getting 9 stitches. The numbing solution they injected me with felt like boiling water.
merino and hand dyed alpaca lace weight yarns. Spaced warp and weft. Differential shrinkage when fulled.
Strobist: Quadra with gold deflector through 1m octa cam right, gridded SB-800 as hair light behind model, both triggered by Skyport
Nikon D700
85mm 1.8
Manual exposure 1/250s @ f/4
Couple of tweaks and bit of retouching in CS4
The awe inspiring, humbling, and erosive power of water was on display last night and it can really catch you off gaurd. This is a lot to ask of a seawall and provides an excellent crash course in the physics of force dispersion and deflected energy! I’ve sat through a lot of coastal resilience infrastructure webinars but there’s nothing like standing near the water during a storm to really drive the point home.
Water finds the path of least resistance, and the greater the armoring and resistance in once spot, the greater the force will be in another spot. The weak point for the Yacht Club is this eastern corner where the seawall meets the parking lot. The reason that regulatory agencies and scientists are working to incentivize a move away from vertical seawalls wherever possible is that we now know they come with signficant drawbacks, especially for adjacent properties. Finding ways to absorb rather than deflect this energy is important wherever possible.
The seawalls in harbor park and the yacht club hold back soil that was imported to fill in a section of intertidal zone. These soils are increasingly saturated during extreme weather events and are showing the accelerated degradation that goes along with that. Our planning discussions really need to recognize how difficult it will be to maintain the status quo in a changing climate.
In the meantime, we can continue to patch things up and drag granite back into place and fill in the holes but repairing grout and mortar in places where we cannot find a compromise with Mother Nature means a lot more maintenance than relying on our rocky coast. Still, we ought to pick our battles wisely if we don’t want the entire town budget consumed with underwater grout injections! We have more water coming from every direction.
I truly don’t know what the best option is for the Yacht Club in the long term but at least Harbor Park has a beach and not a building. I hope we can find a way to preserve beach access rather than an armored vertical drop like we have everywhere else in the harbor.
Video here: youtu.be/PGwPUrL2B7A
This is for Strobist users mostly. Purely instructional - and pretty bad.
I got invited to join the Strobist group other day and put up a few photos.
I got some e-mails and comments asking me to explain a few of my tools/processes.
This is the Floppy Rabbit Ear Flash Deflector that I made to take these photos:
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The flash bounces up and off the reflector creating a warm and defused light - not as harsh as a direct flash.
It's kind of beat up at this point from being folded over and put in my bag.
It's made with two pieces of thick off-white drawing paper.
And attached to a adjustable flash with packing tape.
It's a Frankenstein looking thing - but really effective.
If you have any questions - just ask.
Detail:
Deflected doubleweave scarf from Interweave . Yarn is Brown Sheep Nature Spun Fingering in two shades of green.
Warp was 4 yds; sett was 12 epi; each "stripe" is 16 ends and 16 picks; 8 empty dents left between each warp stripe and 3/4" spacer between each weft stripe.
Felting was done by hand.
Top deck removed and the destination panels removed so proper glazed units can be manufactured and fitted with printed binds behind. Also rain deflectors modelled and primed to show defects. Replacement white metal wheels, radiator, mirrors and indicators pictured in front. Lower deck yet to be started.
Meg Dawson is up deflecting the ball play by Jace Pardon. Brittany Tiegs is back covering on the far side. Delaney Knudsen hustles up to defend. AVP Manhattan Beach Open 2016.
Yet another bruise to add to my gallery. This one hit me just to the inside of my left calf. Of course, it was right where the shin guard protection is minimal.
BMW Z4 G29 Glaswindschott / Glas Wind Deflector powered by dAHLer Competition Line - Dähler Switzerland & Germany
on those blue nights,
rough edged rocks.
flung far at you,
and sting.
you sit at one quiet corner.
with the rustling of
that never-ending waterfall
drowning your tears
in that ever-flowing creek.
the edges from the rock
are not so sharp anymore.
rounded by your will.
moulded by your courage.
to push them off
and move on,
rolling.
Strobist: White beauty dish with silver deflector on Quadra camera left and high. Gridded spot on Ranger RX camera right behind model for hair light. Blue gelled spot on background. Skyport, D700, 24-70.
Setup and a setup photo.
The World War II Airfield Bombing Decoy Q169b at Breckles was built to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Watton airfield. This was a ''Q-type'' night decoy, which displayed a sequence of lights to simulate an active airfield. The site consisted of dummy runway lights running from south-west to north-east across the site, with a bunker constructed near the roadside. The bunker housed the power generator for the lights and contained an operations room, whilst also providing shelter for the decoy crew.
It was manned by the Royal Air Force and then later the United States Army Air Forces. It is referenced as being operational between 1940 and 1942. The bunker still stood at the site in 1996, although the rest of the site had given over to agricultural use by the 1970's. A further bombing decoy site for RAF Watton airfield was located at West Bradenham.
The first Bombing Decoy Airfields were known as ''K'' Sites, these were for day use and were set out on large fields, heath or warrens, sometimes on disused World War I airfields. Props would include dummy aircraft, for example Blenheim aircraft were used at Fulmodeston to represent the ones used at RAF West Raynham, it would depend on which station was being protected. There would be mock bomb dumps and fuel stores, the surface would be levelled to look like a landing ground. Impressed civilian aircraft, such as de Havilland DH Moths, were employed on some sites to resemble de Havilland Tiger Moth military training aircraft.
Large sheets of canvas were painted and laid on the ground to represent hangars and in some cases, old and disused vehicles were set around the site along with gun pits and camouflage nets. These ''Dummy Airfields'' looked very realistic from the air. The crews had their own buildings and trucks. Most ''K'' Sites were closed down between 1942 to 1943 although a few were still in use in 1944.
Even at ground level they could deceive a young lad, out for a walk with family and friends in the summer of 1940, he spotted some Wellington bombers dispersed on an airfield near Thetford. For three hours they waited for one to start up and take-off. A few days later, his father came home laughing his head off and said “ We might well have waited for those planes to take off last Sunday, they were dummies !”
''Q'' Sites, which were sometimes on the same site as a ''K'' Site, but were for night use, from the air they would have looked like a runway flarepath and, for authenticity, had light patterns that included obstruction lights, these were red and placed on hangars and other tall buildings to stop our aircraft landing on them by mistake. Later a bar of red lights was placed across the flarepath and could be seen when on approach. This was added after a number of our own aircraft had attempted to land, sometimes with fatal consequences, some of the early dummy flarepaths were created using Gooseneck Flares.
The ''Q'' Site crew had a powerful Chance Light (similar to a small searchlight) on top of their Control Bunker, codenamed ''Scarecrow'', and this could be used to simulate aircraft taking off, landing and taxiing. Power was provided by generators within the Control Bunker, built to a similar design to a small Nissen Hut, but each one appeared to differ. Some sites had a Control Bunker above ground whereas on others it was below ground, and some sites had both types. One end was covered by tin sheeting, which was the Operations Room with the runway light controls and a telephone connected to the Headquarters Station, there were some basic comforts such as a Tortoiseshell stove and table, etc.
The other room housed the generator and was covered with steel sheeting or arched pre-formed concrete, feed pipes ran to the generator from the fuel tank outside. Normally there were two 15in ducts for air intake and one for the exhaust. Between the rooms there was a passageway that led outside, protected by a blast wall. There was another exit, sometimes vertical from the Operations Room. ''Q'' Sites were still being built for the RAF and USAAF in 1943 to 1944, with the last ones closing down at the end of the war.
In order to draw the enemy bombers from our towns and cities, dummy towns known as ''Starfish'' Sites were set up on open land between one and eight miles from the intended target. In daylight the equipment resembled chicken sheds, etc, but when ignited at night the boilers and fire baskets looked just like bombs exploding, incendiaries burning and buildings on fire, these effects could be made to last a number of hours. ''QL'' Lights were added to Starfish Sites but on their own sites, were designed so that at night they could look like factories, marshalling yards, shipyards, steelworks, etc. ''QL'' Lights ingeniously included welding flashes, railway signals (red and green) red railway crossing gate lights, tram car electrical flashes, standard lamps, and they could also be made to look like open skylights, doors and windows where someone carelessly had not complied with the Blackout regulations.
Information sourced from – www.aviationmuseum.net/AirfieldDecoys.htm
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- Magnaflow Exhaust
- AFE Intake
- Stampede Smoke Side Deflectors
- Stampede Smoke Hood Deflector
- Aries Stainless Bull Bar
- Gatorback Chev Bowtie Mudflaps
The top light deflector and the very bottom are pressed steel and painted a rich dark green color. The center stem is a rich neon pea green baked on enamel (it resembles glass) and the base and switch/light socket area is brushed aluminium and the shade is made up of this woven hemp suspended in a fiber glass. Made by General Lamps . All original. I have some other photo's of this lamp on my Photostream. It appears taller in person too.
Complete with accessory side window wind deflector and rear window wind deflector, but apparently not a fuel cap. Modern Regularity Mallala
Remember those 3" spacers I made out of plumbing pipe? Well I should have made them a few thousandths longer, because this thing doesn't slide onto the trailer tongue. I could force it on, but that'd scrape all the paint off the tongue.
So I made this contraption to allow me to grind a few thousandths off the inner surfaces of the steel plates. That's a 2" rubber contact wheel, normally sticking straight up instead of forward like this, but this grinder is cool how the platen can rotate. Very handy.
The deflector wheels and the steel bracket holding them are new, added by me just for this operation on this damn bike rack, maybe never to be used again? But it worked, the rack now slides onto the trailer tongue with exactly the slip fit I was hoping for.
hang glider leading edge deflectors 1976.06 mill hill shoreham sussex, the sail was cut flat so the deflectors were used to bend the airframe to produce shape in the sail. what it ment was every glider was different depending on how you "wound it up"on the bottle screws
not sure what glider it is ?
VANCOUVER,BC:NOVEMBER 2, 2018 -- Trinity Western Spartans and Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack in action during the Semi Finals of the Canada West conference championships at UBC in Vancouver, BC, November, 2, 2018. (Rich Lam/UBC Athletics Photo)
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Millenium Falcon, set 10179, with a few alterations. The most obvious is of course the ep7 inspired deflector dish. The underlying reason may not be so obvious though, it is because I do not own this set :) How I came to have it on my couch is told on this page about My Ultimate Collection!
A colleague of me told me he would like to have this set, and asked if I knew a way how to get it. One of the options was to buy the individual bricks.
That started me off on the evil plan to just try and build the thing with my current collection of bricks. This lead me to wonderful websites such as brickset and rebrickable. This is my Brickset. I had just over 80 % of the required bricks... But luckily my buddy Eric came to the rescue, and he boosted the number to well over 90 % with bricks from his collection. The remaining nearly 10 % was improvised! The result is nearly the real thing, but the big deflector dish was a problem which was fun to solve!
This build started off with compiling my Brickset, and I persuaded Eric to do the same. This was his chance to finally convince me he has more LEGO than I... This disagreement has been in a stalemate since before our dark ages, but was now finally resolvable. And bugger, Eric has more bricks than I, a lot more.